, 1887-07-23
TOWN Talk.
4. Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked III
Throughout the City.

1t is authoritatively stated hat the new
depot will be ready tor occupancy August
Is.
A day and night guard now alternate
watches at the Laramie county p%eniten-
tiary.
The motion for a new trial for Patrick,
the thief, was overruled in the district
court yesterday.
Members of the Mennerchor are night
ly practicing at Keefe's hall for their
grand celebration next month.
The highest temperature yesterday was
TO-, the lowest 500. At Omaha the
highest was 100, at Salt Lake $40.
The Wyoming Fair Association will
soon issue the programme, rules, list of
prizes, ETC.. for their second annual fair.
The police inaugurated a tramp hunt
late last night, but were unsuccessful, the
travellers being absent from their usual
haunts.
A tramp fell in a fit on east Sixteenth
street yesterday, but had recovered and
disappeared before either an officer or
physician arrived.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has given III. H. Ellis a warranty deed
for thirty-four feet of lot 7 in block 205;
consideration, $113.
Walters, the negro sentenced to ninety
days in the county Jail by Judge Martin,
of Lusk, for burglarizing a ranch, will be
liberated in a few days.
An able. bodied man was arrested for
soliciting aims on Sixteenth street last
evening. He will probably beg Judge
Lee for lieniency to-day.
REILLY, the soldier who was accidentally
wounded during target practice at Fort
Russell Thursday morning, was reported
to be dying last evening.
AS John Chase was walking about the
roof of one of his buildings yesterday he
stumbled and in ~endeavoring to save him
self cut his left hand quite severely.
Judges Fisher and Lee tried and
sentenced one drunk each yesterday.
Fishers victim, and Lees man will exer-
else a No. 2 shovel on the city gut
tiers.
A carpenter employed in making some
repairs on the roof of a south side barn,
fell from a scaffold fifteen feet above the
ground yesterday and sustained severe
injuries.
Attorney Rowan finished his argument
in the Tumble case yesterday morning,
and after Judge Peck made a few re-
marks the matter was taken under ad-
visement by the judge.
Several people who live near the rail
road are already beginning to gather in a
supply of coal for the winter, and the
Union Pacific watchmen are kept busy
guarding the cars and yards.
Jay Gould, not the hero OF Wal street,
but the Cheyenne drunkard, was locked
up in Jail last evening on the same old
charge. He asserted his rights in a loud
PpSSSl "hllC Gil lOllC lIO" DlAlCtllIll
street to the city hall.
Young VIM. Strong. the watch thief
who is in the courts, celebrated his 22nd
birthday yesterday. He was the recipient
of several books and half a dozen pocket
handkerchiefs by a charitable lady friend
OF his mother.
The case of the city of Cheyenne VS..
Mrs. Kate Ferris, charged with assault
ing Bridget Dacey will be tried by jury
before Judge Lee at 10 o'clock this
morning, having been postponed to that
hour yesterday on account of rain.
Owing to the fact hat the telegraph
wires east of Cheyenne were Frustrated
by a storm yesterday afternoon no news
has been received from Kearney, Neb.,
concerning the fireman tournament there
yesterday. The Alets of this city were
entered in the $500 free Tor all.
The penitentiary commissioners in
spected the Laramie county penitentiary
Yesterday. They complimented Sheriff
Sharpless on the cleanliness of the prison
and the ann in which the prisoners
are treated, and promised to provide ad
dltlonal guards for the institution.
One of the milk wagons of a dairy just
outside the city was upset in a runaway
Yesterday morning and a large quaint
ity Of the white fluid spilled on the
ground. No further damage was done,
and the milkman filled the cans with
water and proceeded on his rounds.
Frank M. Foote, Evanston; John q.
Dyer, Rawlins, and Col. Luke Murrin, of
Inns city. penitentiary commissioners, hold
a business meeting last evening. They
are e~ndeavoring to make some DISPOSE
uon OF Wyoming's c%onvicts, bat have
not as yet succeeded in making any salts
factory arrangements.
st. Jacobs oil cured my warts-A